The Girls | Bibi Andersson, Harriet Andersson

DVD: The Girls | Bibi Andersson, Harriet Andersson

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The Girls

	The Girls Bibi Andersson, Harriet Andersson New Yorker Video, 2006 average customer review:based on 1 review view larger image
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Mai Zetterling, revered as much for her acting as for her directing, directed The Girls, the film that defined her feminist sensibilities during Sweden's women's lib era. Tying contemporary gender issues to the ancient, The Girls tells the story of three actors, Liz Lindstrand (Bibi Andersson), Marianne (Harriet Andersson), and Gunnila (Gunnel Lindblom of The Hunger), who, to their husbands and lovers' dismay, take Aristophanes' play Lysistrata on the road, questioning, during the tour, how different their current lives really are. As all three women become increasingly rebellious against their familial and wifely duties, their relationships crumble until they start asking themselves if their rejection of domesticity is beside the point. Contextualized by Lysistrata, a play about female revolution set during a time when women had zero political rights, Liz, Marianne, and Gunnila begin to see the complexities of the women's movement, by understanding that they lack happiness not necessarily because they lack rights. By so clearly and stylishly elucidating this concept, Zetterling proves to be ahead of her time, making the film feel more relevant than ever. Filmed in high-contrast black and white like a great Bergman movie, The Girls looks intentionally sexy, further reiterating female power. --Trinie Dalton

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Less Bergman, more Fellini

Truly was expecting a Bergman feel to this, Zetterling's other New Yorker Video release "Loving Couples" could easily fit in with much of Bergman's work from the same period. This film however would make a great companion to "8 1/2". It has the same strangeness.

Great slightly abstract scenes (and the movie is full of them) such as Gunnel Lindblom (looking a bit like Anouk Amiee) being chased by an increasing large group of boys through a shopping center can easily be compared to Fellini.

Also Gunnar Bjornstrand gets to present a character that is entirely different than anything he did for Bergman.

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